---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-006698"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SMPL"
cik: "0001702744"
company_name: "Simply Good Foods Co"
filed_at: "2025-01-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T08:24:26.680295+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Simply Good Foods CFO Shaun Mara to retire July 3; Christopher Bealer named successor

## Summary
- Shaun P. Mara notified company of retirement effective July 3, 2025; will remain CFO until then.
- Christopher J. Bealer hired as SVP Finance effective April 1, 2025, expected to become CFO on July 3.
- Bealer brings 23 years CPG experience, most recently EVP Corporate Controller at Reckitt Benckiser.
- Annual meeting results: all 11 director nominees elected; Deloitte ratified; say-on-pay passed.
- Proposal 3 (advisory say-on-pay) received 88.4M for vs 2.4M against with 3.7M abstentions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-006698
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SMPL
- cik: 0001702744
- company_name: Simply Good Foods Co
- filed_at: 2025-01-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1702744/000110465925006698/0001104659-25-006698-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1702744/000110465925006698/tm254706d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Christopher J. Bealer was appointed as Senior Vice President of Finance at Simply Good Foods Co.
  - Action: hired
  - Role: Senior Vice President of Finance
  source text: on January 28, 2025, the Company announced the hiring of Mr. Christopher J. Bealer as Senior Vice President of Finance of the Company, as of April 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1702744/000110465925006698/0001104659-25-006698-index.htm
- Executive change
  Shaun P. Mara departed as Chief Financial Officer at Simply Good Foods Co.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On January 27, 2025, Shaun P. Mara, Chief Financial Officer of The Simply Good Foods Company (the “Company”), notified the Company of his decision to retire effective July 3, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1702744/000110465925006698/0001104659-25-006698-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.